Dan Price, the 31 year-old self-made millionaire owner of a card payments company in Seattle introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all of his 120 staff in 2015. He also took a pay cut of $1m a year (from $1.1m).
He did this after realising that some of his employees were having to take second jobs in order to get by.
Five years later he's still on the minimum salary, and says the gamble has paid off.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/new s/stories-51332811
Makes a difference from the CEOs in our own companies, who seem to take delight in increasing the disparity between their own earnings and those of their workers - and the multi-millionaire "entrepreneurs" who seem focused on increasing their wealth at the cost of others.
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